Justin Tuck might be thinking about wearing track shoes instead of football spikes in tomorrow night’s game at FedEx Field against Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins.

Track shoes might be the best way to catching the Redskins’ elusive rookie quarterback which Tuck and the Giants know is crucial if they’re to keep their 2-game NFC East lead over the Redskins.

“I was quoted as saying Vick was the fastest player I’d ever seen with the ball in his hands,” Tuck said the other day. “I don’t know. I’m going to have to back up on that now, because ‘RG’ is something special.”

So special in fact that the people who run the NFL Combine in Indianapolis remember the 4.38 time he ran in the dash a year ago while showcasing his skills for the NFL scouts.

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The only faster quarterback time recorded at the combine was the 4.33 Vick ran in 2001.

“I’d like to see a race between those two,” Tuck continued. “A young Vick against RG even now.”

Given the 10-year age difference Tuck and the Giants defense know what Vick can do. They worry about RG III more, and not just because he’s the QB they have to contend with next.

“A young Vick and RG now? That would be insane to watch. I’d pay to see it,” said the Giants defensve captain who quipped after Big Blue’s first meeting with the Redskins rookie how he doesn’t want to thuink about chasing him down for the next few years.

“He may make me retire earlier than I’d want to,” said Tuck.

“I always thought Vick was faster, maybe because I’ve had more one on ones with him. I remember playing him down in Atlanta, when we sacked him a lot, but he made us miss a few times, too.”

That was nothing compared to a play RG III pulled off against Tuck and the Giants in their Oct. 21 meeting at MetLife Stadium when the Giants won on a 87-yard Eli Manning-to-Victor Cruz touchdown pass with 1:33 to play.

A 4th-down pass that RG III completed was one of several on his highlight reel the Giants have seem plenty of times the last few days.

“The one thing about RG III is how poised he is in a situation like that. He stayed back there and kind of kept his eyes down field and found a wide-open tight end after eluding myself, JPP and our whole d-line it seemed like. I think it talks to how in the moment he is and how poised he is in those moments. That is rare for a rookie quarterback.

“Actually the most impressive play I saw from him was incomplete and he threw the ball away,” recalls Tuck.

“He broke contain and guys chased him and I saw him do a backwards karaoke to get away from somebody. Running full speed, flipped his hips into a backwards karaoke. Me and Osi were watching film and we were like, ‘Did he just karaoke?’ Full speed,” said an obviously amazed Tuck.

Plays like that are likely to get RG III a spot opposite Tuck in an upcoming Subway commercial.